Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Mongolia has brightened the possibilities of cooperation between Amul and the Mongolian dairy entities which were already in advanced stage of finalization.
Amul – India’s storied milk food brand would soon start helping Mongolia develop its dairy sector on the cooperative blueprint. A team of experts from the Gujarat cooperative recently visited Mongolia to take stock of the situation.
Earlier the Mongolian ambassador had visited Gujarat and held discussions with the Amul functionaries in Anand.
Sources say Amul will help develop training programmes on management of bulk milk cooling system, clean milk production, animal health, establishing milk producers organization, develop standards of operation procedure of different units in dairy chain, dairy technology for non-dairy technologists, quality control of milk and dairy products and technological and engineering aspects of manufacturing of basic dairy products.
It will also organize vocational dairy training course for Mongolian dairy operators, representatives of small, medium enterprises in India and study tour for dairy specialists of Mongolia in India.
Mongolia will invite dairy experts on animal breeding, health, dairy processing, including indigenous products from India to organize joint workshops, seminars, and training activities. It will invite experts on establishment of rural cooperatives, milk producers’ organization and work out the models of such cooperative establishment in one of the rural provinces of Mongolia.
Times of India quotes a GCMMF source saying Mongolia’s total cattle population is over five crore with just the number of cows being around 35 lakh. Hence, there is very good potential of dairy development in that country.